On from the Link Centre, the next port of call is Shaw Ridge Leisure park where you will find the larger-than life statue of Diana Dors, the homage to the larger-than-life actress born in Swindon. Situated, appropriately enough, outside the cinema.

Diana Dors at Shaw Ridge

Now, not many minutes walk from the cinema, up onto the green open spaces of Shaw Ridge, you will come to ‘How the Mighty Fall’ and close by it the outdoor gym equipment.

Side view of ‘How the Mighty Fall’

Rear view of ‘HTMF”

Detail on HTMF

Opposite side view go HTMF

Close up

The outdoor gym!

Further meanderings around bits of West Swindon I had no idea existed brought us to ‘White Horse Pacified’. This sculpture would be striking if only had some TLC! As it is..welll…

White Horse Pacified

White Horse Pacified

Next up, the tour takes you to ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ – a fabulous representation of the nursery rhyme, prominently situated in a front garden in The Prinnells.

The cat and the fiddle

The cow

Side view showing the dish & the spoon.

A bit more trekking and you get to ‘Nexus’ at Freshbrook Village centre.

Nexus. Freshbrook village centre

Another village centre, another sculpture. This time ‘The Watchers’ at Toothill.

Then, last but by no means least, before returning to the start point at the Link Centre, you will see Looking to the Future.